Population boom

[Mister Agenda]

I bet you're glad your science teacher wasn't quite as condescending as you are.

I'm asking so I can try to understand. And it's "people in the know" like you that don't like being challenged on points that I find annoying .... isn't that how we all learn?

It's not your questions that are annoying people, it's the way you act like they haven't said anything and that you haven't learned anything.

Oh and did you skip your English lessons to go do science and geog?

- to/too/two
- who/who's/whose

oh and you're confused what the thread is about? add comprehension to the list too!

You don't seem to have a problem with condescension when it's coming from your end.

not bothered by the post/reputation disparity, but otherwise, a good point well made.

I know.

I ask more questions than I answer, I'm not out to harvest a particular site's "reputation" points!

Or out to be much of a contributor to our community, apparently.

I find it amazing that there are allegedly more people alive on Earth today, than all the rest of the people that ever existed added together.

It IS amazing, it just doesn't need a lot of repeating once you've made the point.

I ask the question in the OP and many of you offer great answers. Some I don't believe, some I find brilliant.

And you've participated so little in this thread that we have no idea which you don't believe and which you find brilliant.

Others criticise me for asking... maybe because I ask more than once... if your were a college lecturer, wouldn't you want your students to say they didn't understand?

I bolded the relevant part. I would expect my students to tell me what it is they didn't understand about what I said, not just repeat the same question like they didn't HEAR what I said.

or would you want them just to nod, and not understand?

I would want them to behave intelligently, providing they weren't mentally challenged.

and maybe the fact I ask the question again means you didn't do very well in your answer?!

More likely it means you didn't read the posts, because it would take a pretty stupid person to just dumbly repeat the same question if there was something said that they didn't understand. How hard is it to say what you didn't understand about an explanation?

This is a great forum, and if you're gonna get haughty, then so am I.

Whatever, I'd rather you contributed to making it a great forum instead of derailing your own threads.

Thanks to the mod for reacting in kind, and not wielding the power, appreciated.

They're classy like that.

So anyone care to take on where population will go in the next 200 years?

Gasp! A NEW question!? Now I'm all flustered.

Our population on Earth won't double again. The rate of increase has been declining for some time. Most of the population growth that does occur will be in Africa and South America. Africa's population will at least double by 2050.

Global population will peak around 10 billion people in the next 50 years, then very gradually decline for centuries. The main driver of the decline will be economic development and advances in birth control methods. Alternatively, it could be from high mortality due to disease and starvation exacerbated by lack of economic development and climate change.